June, so soon?

Nice name for a song, but perhaps after our winter, "June not soon enough."  Except that it doesn't rhyme.

We've been waiting for warmer weather.  And it's here, at least sometimes.  But enough to do some firsts for the season - first bike ride, first gardening, first tour at Arrowhead and first ride on THE KAYAK!  Wonderful - and thank you once again.  Maybe even first fishing this week, if I can get organized.

And a first for Annie this morning who is off to her summer internship at Bank of America.  Good luck.  Annie had spent a week or so up here relaxing and doing some school work after her semester finished and after the wedding.  She helped out with gardening and got her mother on Facebook.  Look at social media, it's about to get a lot more social.

And a first for Bubble, the cat.  A chipmunk.  Stay away critters!  

Mary is wrapping up her school year, but will work with the same boys from Ghana in the month of July.  She has also signed up to swim in the world master's championships in Montreal in August.  This past week, she helped a friend do all the flowers for a wedding.  It was a nice insight into how elaborate and extensive such work can be.  The final result was exquisite and elegant.

Speaking of weddings, it sounds like Margaret and Andrew are back to the work and school routine.  Margaret has started her summer class sessions.  Off on their adventure.

Joe went back to London after a week off in Washington and is busy wrapping up details for his return in a few weeks.  We're looking forward to having you closer, Joe.

John and Marilyn are closer as they closed up their winter quarters and drove back to sweatshirts and long pants for the first time in months,  They came over for a welcome home pizza dinner with Colleen and Pauline.  They were a bit exhausted as they had a litter of 10 Borzoi pups born over the space of two days and nights last week.

We're planning our summer trip, destination Wisconsin with stops in Rochester, Toronto and Georgian Bay.  It will be fun to see Green Lake, that has been such a big part of Andrew and Lur's life.

Saw a good photo of Peter on Facebook at Princeton reunions.  Looks like too much excitement.

My refrain about retirement is that I'm busier than I want to be.  I took on a part-time job helping a firm do a survey of historic buildings in North Adams.  Lots of deed research which can be pretty detailed.  UMass has asked me to stay on and help out with their scholarship advising so I go over there a couple of times a week.  And last week I was named chairman of Pittsfield's Historical Commission.  All I really want to do is mow the lawn.  And go kayak-ing.  I'll figure this out.

That's all from up here.  Love you guys

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